869 – Saint Cyril [Constantine], Greek Byzantine Christian monk, missionary to the Slavs, scholar, linguist, and namesake of the Cyrillic alphabet, dies at about 42 (birthdate unconfirmed)27)
1737 – Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
1845 – Joseph Lakanal, French Politician and Educator, dies at 82
1949 – Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
1975 – Julian S. Huxley, English biologist, 1st director-general of UNESCO, dies at 87
2015 – Philip Levine, American poet (1995 Pulitzer prize), dies at 87
2022 – Sandy Nelson, American rock drummer (“Teen Beat”; “Let There Be Drums”), dies of stroke complications at 83
2023 – Friedrich Cerha, Austrian composer (Baal) and conductor (Ensemble Die Reihe), dies at 96
2023 – Charley Ferguson, American football tight end (AFL All-Star 1965; AFL C’ship 1964, 65; Buffalo Bills), dies at 83
2024 – Don Gullett, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1970-78 (3 x World Series Champion – Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees), dies at 73